Shooting Stars

Research Task - The Cosmic Engine Lily McCubbin 1. Sunspots Sunspots are disturbances that occur on the suns surface as a result of magnetic activity in the Sun’s interior. They appear as dark spots composed of a darker centre called the umbra that are surrounded by a lighter area called the penumbra. During the 17th century, Gallieo observed Sunspots by pointing his telescope towards the sun and projecting its image onto paper. From this he was able to survey the Sunspots and as a result discover

My project is on neutron stars, a beautiful sight but deathly touch. Neutron stars are created when giant stars die in a supernovae. Their cores collapse with the protons and electrons essentially melting into each other to form neutrons. These objects were born from stars that have grow four times the size of the sun before exploding into a catastrophic supernovae. When formed they begin to rate in space, as they get smaller the speed in the spinning increases because of the conservation of angular

The Northern Lights are collisions of gaseous particles in Earth’s atmosphere with charged particles released from the sun’s atmosphere. The northern lights form when charged particles released from the sun during a solar flare that kind of spike the Earth’s magnetic shield and collide with molecules and atoms in the atmosphere. The lights are seen in different types of colors like yellowish green, pale green, pink, purple, blue, and sometimes orange. The green or pale green is the most common and

Children of the Stars Anisa Noor SES4U November 24, 2014 Children of the Stars Humans are made of stars. This may sound like common poetry but there is scientific evidence to back up such a statement. The human’s biological makeup is proven to have come from the remnants of a supernova, in fact, almost all life on Earth can originate back to the core of a star. Before we were micro-organisms in our evolutionary ancestry we were particles inside a star, and those particles remain within us today

know where to look. It is faint but still visible at times. Though it is visible no one knew it was a planet for a long time, everyone thought it was a star. William Herschel was looking through his telescope and was looking at this “star” (Uranus) and after performing some measurements he was able to tell that it was moving too fast to be a star, he decided it must be a comet. He and his fellow scientists kept looking into it, a comet that bright would have to be pretty close to the sun and it would

Rigel is a blue supergiant, binary star system, brightest star in the Orion constellation and it is also the 7th brightest star overall. It's 10 million years old and it is relatively a young star, compared to our Sun, which is 4,6 billion years old. It also is 74 times the radius of our Sun. So large, in fact, that if Rigel was replaced with our Sun, it would stretch to the orbit of Mercury. That is the result of swelling up, because it has depleted its hydrogen supply. Rigel is around 800 light

the star is a long process that has taken place for billions of years and will continue to take place long after our star is no longer in existence. In this essay I will be explaining the magnificent process of how a star is first born till the end of its life cycle. First, I will be explaining how the star is first formed in all its beauty big or small. Then, I will be explaining the path of an average star like our own sun will take. After, I will be explaining the journey of a massive star in all

of habitable planets as they both are very Earth-like: Kepler 438b is said to be 70% be in the habitable zone of its star where as Kpler 442b has a chance of 97% be in the habitable zone (Technewsworld). This shows that both exoplanets are likely to have water in liquid state hence maybe able to obtain life. Base on the sizes of the two exoplanets and their distance from their star. Ian Sample, science editor of The guardian mentioned that both planets is likely to be having a rocky surface that resemble

dwarfs, neutron stars formed when the original star cannot support themselves against gravitational collapse by generating thermal pressure. They are born from once large stars that grew to be four to eight times the size of our sun before exploding. After the explosion, the only part of the star that remains is its core, but it no longer produces nuclear fusion. The neutron star density causes protons and elections to combine into neutrons, which is how the star got its name. Neutron stars rotate in space

the universe is recycled constantly through the formation and evolution of stars. Clouds of atomic gas cool and condense, forming cold, dense clouds of molecular gas. Within these clouds of cold gas, stars can form. It takes just some push, pull, or magnetic field to cause the cloud to fall into gravitational collapse. Once the cloud is collapsing, the road to becoming a star is an inevitable one. The formation of a star involves many different stages. In the beginning, there is just dust and a gas